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Obituaries & funerals, 1880

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DEATH of Hon. Chas. Meredith

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1880 · page 2

Intelligence from Tasmania informs as that the Hon. Charles Meredith, for a long time member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, is dead. The deceased gentleman had been identified with the…

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Death of the Hon. Charles Meredith

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1880 · page 2

A telegram received from Tasmania to-day, announces the death of he hon. Charles Meredith, a gentleman who for many years has been most intimately connected with the political history of that…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 15

WE regret to record the decease on the 3rd instant, of Mr. John Stanton, a native of Partly, near Ballinrobe, county of Mayo, Ireland. Mr. Stanton was a relative of the Bishop of Achonry…

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Obituary. Captain Shorter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 25

We have to announce the death of Captain William Edgar Shorter, shipping master of Port Jackson. Mr. Shorter arrived in the colony in the year 1833. He was well known from his seventeen or eighteen…

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Our Rome Setter. ROME, January 15. Scene at a Funeral

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 6

Funerals are favourite occasions for political demonstrations in Italy. On Christmas Day died General Avezzana, a mighty man among the Garibaldians, President of the Democratic League,…

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A Zulu's Account of the Death of the Prince Imperial

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 7

The Western Morning News has received from an army officer, the following interesting particulars of the Prince Imperial's, death derived from Zulus. He says :-- I accompanied two…

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Our Rome Letter. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Rome, January 15. Scene at a Funeral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 41

FUNERALS are favourite occasions for political demonstrations in Italy. On Christmas Day died General Avezzana, a mighty man among the Garibaldians, President of the Democratic League,…

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Literary Notices. Autobioghaphy of Sir George B[?]ddlecombe C.B., with Portrait and Obituary Notice. Chapman and Hall, London

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 6

It would have been very advantageous to this work if some judicious friend had revised the manuscript of it before it was put into the printers' hands, because in that case many things…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 15

ON the evening of the 4th March, Mrs. Helena Maria Lett, widow of the late John Lett, of Kilgibbon, Co. Wexford, Ireland, and afterwards of Sydney, N. W. W.—a man universally esteemed…

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Death of the Very Rev. Dr. Whitehead, of Maynooth

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 6

Every Irish priest who was educated in Maynooth College will hoar with sincere regret the death of its estimable and accomplished ex-Vice-President, the Very Rev…

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Death of Mr. William Boles

Evening News · Monday 15 March 1880 · page 4

It is with it feeling of deep regret we have to chronicle the death of Mr. William Boles, which took place at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The deconsed was unmarried, and aged 36 years. He has been in…

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The Late Mr. Charles Lackey

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1880 · page 3

This young man died at Masy Glon, the residence of his father-in-law, on Saturday evening, the 28th Ultimo (says the CUMBERLAND MERCURY), After only a few days' illness. His death caused general regret…

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Death of Cardinal Manning's Brother

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1880 · page 3

Mr. Frederick Manning, brother of Cardinal Planning, died at Leamington on Thursday, aged 84. The deceased had resided at Leamington for many years in retirement, devoting his wealth to…

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Death of Captain Cook

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 2

The following letter appears in a recent number of NATURE :—"The Death of Captain Cook.—On reading a paper reprinted from the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. I, part 3,…

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The late Mr. John Henry Challis

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE has just been received from England of the death of Mr. John Henry Challis, an old resident of Sydney, who is stated to have bequeathed to the Sydney University the magnificent sum of of £100,000. Mr…

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Death of Cardinal Manning's Brother

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 41

Mr. Frederick Manning, brother of Cardinal Manning, died at Leamington on Thursday, aged 84. The deceased had resided at Leamington for many years in retirement, devoting his wealth to…

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Obituary. London, March 11

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 558

Lady Charlotte Bacon…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 7

Mr. E. S: HILL.—Mr. Edwad Smith Hill, died on the 17th March, at the age of 61. The deceased gentlemen was well known and highly respected among a large circle of friends and acquaintances; and was an earnest worker…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 15

MRS. SMIDMORE.—Last week Mrs. M. A. Smidmore, an old and highly-respected resident, of St. Peters, Cook's River, died at the ripe old ago of 60 years. The deceased was the widow of…

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